PoC is just one link in the Innovation chain
Please bear with me while I ‘think out loud’ and save this as a shell for a future post.
While talking with Andy about his ‘Clips on Slime’ diagram, it became clear that the end of a Proof of Concept (PoC) project can be rather unsatisfying. No matter how clearly we tried to explain that a PoC finishes where a functional specification begins, the amount of remaining work to bring an idea to a completed product is always underestimated. UPDATE: I see Tom has just experienced this at show and tell 2 for one of his projects.
Fang - Mike Seyfang
October 8th, 2007 at 1:35 am
[...] This is a common reaction to most Show and Tells; something which I take a sign of success (we’re on the right track) yet cringe with the thought ‘no - it’s a PoC; a prototype rather than a product‘. [...]